oh, and Terrorizer. Pete Sandoval is such a badass drummer. i heard once that the other guys in Morbid Angel had him listen to a band that used a drum machine and told him that it was a real person drumming faster than him. so he practiced until he could beat the machine.

Although I am not a huge fan of funeral doom (interestingly, I like less extreme doom variants (traditional/epic/death) and more extreme variants (drone/doom, extreme sludge) as well, but not this middle ground) I was familiarising myself with Esoteric and this album is huuuuuge

Some of my favorites would be: Mastodon, Between the Buried and Me, We Butter the Bread with Butter, Opeth, Gojira, Scar Symmetry, Arch Enemy. Mastodon being my favorite, Blood Mountain is their best Album in my opinion.

Although I am not a huge fan of funeral doom (interestingly, I like less extreme doom variants (traditional/epic/death) and more extreme variants (drone/doom, extreme sludge) as well, but not this middle ground) I was familiarising myself with Esoteric and this album is huuuuuge

Not very easily digestible however.

And dat artwork!

The Maniacal Vale is definitely one of my favorite albums, and yeah it's absolutely massive.

The second I saw this name I knew it had to be a "-core" band. No other metal genre has that many weird names.

Sometimes they get too silly (dunno WBTWB but most trve kvlt metalheads seem to hate them) but I do have to say those bands that can do the weird album name/song title/lyrics/band name thing well are actually pretty funny. War From A Harlots Mouth and Ion Dissonance always did very crazy music along with very long, tongue-in-cheek and totally random song titles and lyrics (that still managed to be about something) that imo gives a very unqiue feel to that mathcore scene. Somehow the absurdity and the randomness of them complemented the equally mad music very well.

I am especially loving WFAHM atm, sometimes they get a bit stale/get overwhelmed with breakdowns and staccato chugging but how many other bands do you know that does a mosh breakdown section with sampled machine gun sounds :P

Taiwanese metal, maybe the most badass chorus I've heard in a while. They sing in a taiwan dialect of chinese (but it doesnt matters, we dont understand most english texts anyway ). Also nice video effects.

sadly, as ridiculous as that one is, it's not even the worst i've heard. i think Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! takes the blue ribbon.
also, i've found that there's a very distinct lack of Allegaeon in this thread:

It's a shame that these retarded metalcore bands with their stupid band names are so populair. Something I will never understand. Their music is shit, and totally boring compared to the real and serious bands around. Underground metal bands ftw.